The one reason I think the footage of Saddam is not a taped-in-advance fake is that if you wanted to ensure people still believed you were posthumously alive, you’d look a little better prepared than Saddam looked. He had that KSM “I-Just-Woke-Up” look and those grandma glasses and bizarre notepad did not exactly inspire fear. If the intelligence was half-way reliable, a good gamble. Too bad it doesn’t seem to have paid off.